I recently ‘acquired’ a USB drive enclosure. To test it, I put in an old drive, a maxtor 3200 120Gb. All was ok so I put in my working drive, a Seagate, also 120Gb. Now it all works, but the BIOS, openSUSE and Windows still report that the Maxtor is attached?
How do I convince the BIOS that it is no longer there and get it to fetch the correct details of the attached drive?
Board is ASUS M2N-MX, BIOS up to date.
Here is hwinfo |grep usb
Ah, now I understand what you pointed at in the other post. Could it be the drive enclosure registers something? I mean, if even the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) does not accept the change, you’d think the info comes from outside the computer.
If you open the disk in Dolphin and check the occupation, what does it say?
Can you connect the disk, mount it’s partitions, then post output of
df -h
?
Hi Knurpht, and thank you for the reply, I am sorry not to have got back to you…
You were right about the enclosure…
I went downstairs and did an ID on the HDD that was originally in the enclosure and it was a Seagate 300Gb…
BUT…
The enclosure was model #Maxtor 3200… I know the two companies are closely linked, but I did not expect a Seagate drive in a MAXTOR branded box …
So it is the USB circuitry that interfaces to the ATA drive which somehow stamps a MAXTOR 3200 id, so that BIOS and OS’es think it is a MAXTOR…